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Director’s Letter
Dear Industry Member, Don’t say you weren’t invited: We want you. We need you. Please forward, post, blog, write a letter, phone bank, take a bus, ride a carpool, Facebook and Tweet ASAP. But most important: Attend or support Industry Day on May 2nd. 1. RSVP right now at www.OMPA.org 2. Write a letter to your state legislator (also at www.OMPA.org) 3. Attend Industry Day in Salem. You won’t regret it. WHY?? Governor Kitzhaber has recommended to the Oregon legislature that we expand the OPIF (Oregon Production Investment Fund) so Oregon can recruit twice as much business into our state as we did in this last record-breaking year. That means turning over $100 million worth of recruited production business into over $200 million in production business. If you are making a good living, you have a good reason to support this. If you are not working enough, you have a good reason to support this. If you work in any business that is impacted by the cash infusion these projects bring, you have a good reason to support this. That’s why the Governor introduced this bill: OPIF (the Oregon Production Investment Fund) has repeatedly been determined as one of the very best ways to attract new money into Oregon to grow our economy. The bill also adds incentives to recruit post-production and video game development thanks to OMPA’s iOPIF amendment, which continues to offer the incentive to qualified independent Oregon filmmakers. Wonky details: The Governor’s bill is called HB 2267. The Tax Credits Committee and state economists support it as one of the most productive uses of tax-credit funded economic development programs Oregon operates, meaning it provided the greatest results at attracting new money into the state. Here is a graph of OPIF’s performance. Now imagine that graph going twice as high next year. Is this starting to get to be too many details? That’s OK — we have a quick training at 8:15 a.m. at the Days Inn “Black Bear” conference center in Salem. Just RSVP today. It will take a village. This is our village and we need you. PS: Actors – you get a special assignment. Get out your headshot, resume and a sharpie, and follow the instructions at CastIronStudios.com
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Mission: OMPA is a 501(c)6 non-profit trade association dedicated to the development, growth and enhancement of the film, video and multimedia industry in the state of Oregon.
Board: Michael Bard, President Golf Committee Chair
Lisa Cicala, Vice President Membership Committee Chair
Tim Troester, Secretary/Treasurer Nathaniel Applefield Government Affairs Committee Chair
Slater Dixon Aaron Douglas Dennis Gleason Stefan Henry-Biskup Janet McIntyre
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Dennis Noreen Mike Ratoza Dave Spacek Dave Spraker
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Christopher Toyne
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James WilderHancock, Past President
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SAG-AFTRA Announces Closure of Portland Local Office Local union elected ask for help in fighting the closure In bad news for local SAG-AFTRA union members and industry stakeholders, the union announced it will be closing 10 Local offices, among them Portland. As a result, Portland Executive Director and OMPA board member Nathaniel Applefield will be departing in the next 30-60 days. National executive director David White is framing the closures and layoffs as addressing fiscal concerns, and believes operations can continue and improve via a new streamlined system that includes five staffers with oversight over approximately 11,000 members. Local union elected disagree with this view and are mounting a campaign to save the office. SAG-AFTRA Portland board members hope that stakeholders
will join them in fighting for a union presence here. The board is asking members and stakeholders to send letters to Mr. White at dwhite@sagaftra.org protesting the closure. Click here to read letters that will also be posted on the Occupy Portland SAGAFTRA Facebook page. A Portland SAG-AFTRA general membership meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 22nd at 7pm at the NW Oregon Labor Council, AFL-CIO. The building is hard to find so please follow the Google directions by clicking here. Immediately following the membership meeting on the same night, a stakeholders’ gathering is planned. Specifics will be provided as soon as possible.
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Actors in Action’s 15th Year Anniversary Celebration! and Fundraiser for the Portland Humane Society Thursday, May 9th at 6pm The Conga Club Portland, OR (Located directly behind AIA’s studio on 323 NE Wygant St) Come celebrate with us! • Free entry • Free raffle ticket • Food, games, no host bar • Live entertainment • Silent auction benefiting the Portland Humane Society • DJ/Dancing • Meet our talent and agent Damon R. Jones of AIA • All are welcome, including kids (accompanied by an adult if under 16 years old) • And a surprise or two! Sponsored by Agency Comp Cards and LazyKitchen.com
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Schedule 6:00pm - Doors open at Conga Club for the celebration. Entertainment, games, food, industry booths, silent auction begins, get free raffle ticket, no host bar, and meet actors from AIA 7:15pm - 1st Raffle drawings 7:30pm - Speakers 7:45pm - Surprise! 8:00pm - Party like there’s no one watching (Dancing, no host bar) 9:45pm - 2nd Raffle Drawings 9:55pm - Silent auction bidding closes 10:00pm - End
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Portland Community Media News Updates New Community Productions On March 30, PCM’s Community Productions volunteers provided video coverage of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Camp for Girls Spring 2013 Girl Rock Institute Showcase featuring four bands of campers playing original songs written over the last nine weeks and a concert of local bands (Spider and the Webs, Reign the Arcade and Blind Lovejoy) curated by the camp’s RnRC4G Presents class participants. It was a great night of music and video production and was even attended by Portlandia’s Fred Armisen! Follow PCM’s Facebook page for the broadcast dates. Thank you to our volunteers Jeannie Lawer, Cameo Schneider, Laurie Sutton, Frances Fagan, and Jennifer Sowell for their great work! Announcements Congratulations to our Program Director, Dunetchka Otero! The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) National Leadership Institute 2013 Selection Committee has approved her excellent application, and she is on her way to Silver Falls in June as a
representative of the Media Arts! NAMAC’s National Leadership Institute has grown to be one of the most successful and most far-reaching programs. This fiveday intensive intergenerational workshop is designed to encourage and sustain visionary leadership. NAMAC’s National Leadership Institute offers delegates the opportunity to: ● Increase awareness of their leadership strengths and areas for development ● Learn and practice essential teamwork and collaboration skills ● Determine the steps they will take to grow and sustain their leadership ● Consider the impact of generational and cultural differences in their organizations ● Broaden their network of peer support The Institute is presented in partnership with The Learning Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the common good by instigating place-based opportunities for learning, leading and creating.
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Bent Image Lab creates “Love Story” for Chips Ahoy on these spots,” says Bent Executive Director Chips Ahoy’s wildly successful Ray Di Carlo. “The humorous stories and “Convertible” campaign launched the brand charismatic cookie characters always make in China. Since then, Chips Ahoy! Cookie great spots for Bent to produce.” Guy has kept igniting the enthusiasm of cookie fans with his amusing singing and dancing performances. Bent Image Lab brings Chocolate Lady to life for Chips Ahoy! Cookie Guy This year’s campaign— “Love Story”—is a tribute to the original campaign, serving as a saucy sequel to the cookie guy’s road trip in “Convertible”. The new campaign sees our Cookie falling in love on the road with a Chocolate Lady - her chocolate kisses leave a lasting impression on him. Tom Shum, Group Creative Director at Draft FCB Shanghai describes the new campaign as “The best combination of beauty and taste. The product truth – told in a romantic and fun way.” The production companies, Bent Image Lab (animation), and Tribe (in Shanghai) were thrilled B.A. IN MEDIA & FILM STUDIES to be part of bringing Convertible back to the Explore how media in all forms affect not only how we Chinese public. Director view the world, but how we shape it. Learn the power Paul Harrod says, “It is of media, and how you can use that power to become a participant of change. great to continue the storyline of the original Accepting applications now “Convertible” spot that was done by his friend, marylhurst.edu/ompa Bent Director Ken Lidster. Tribe and Bent have been collaborating with Kraft and Draft FCB Shanghai for You. Unlimited. the past 3 campaigns. 17600 Pacific Highway [Hwy. 43] | 503.699.6268 “We love working with 10 miles south of Portland Kraft, Tribe and Draft FCB
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Coat Tale Productions Releases New Comedy Series: The Screenprinters From Coat Tale Productions, the team behind the hit YouTube paranormal series The Haunting of Sunshine Girl, comes a new comedy series. Think: The Office does screenprinting. With new episodes every Wednesday and Friday, the series is new media at its finest—short and funny. Written and directed by Nick Hagen and produced by Mercedes Rose. Starring Brian Sutherland, Tara Dublin, Katie Michels and Hannah Barefoot. Makeup by Terri Lodge with sound by Christian Dolan. Click here to watch Season 1 of The Screenprinters
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Seen from L-R: Katie Michels, Brian Sutherland, Tara Dublin, Christian Dolan on sound and director Nick Hagen.
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Oregon Cartoon Institute Presents Harry Smith PDX May 16 & 19, 2013 at The Hollywood Theatre and The Cleaners Oregon Cartoon Institute, an all volunteer organization dedicated to raising awareness of Oregon’s rich animation and cartooning history, kicks off the Third Annual Northwest Animation Festival with three events celebrating Oregon born animator, Harry Smith. Harry Everett Smith, one of the leading experimental filmmakers of the 20th century, was born in Portland, Oregon on May 29, 1923. On Thursday May 16, at 3:00pm at the Hollywood Theatre, Oregon Cartoon Institute presents Harry Smith In The Pacific Northwest, a free panel discussion featuring three regional historians: Michael Munk, Gus Frederick and Rich Wandschneider. On Thursday May 16, at 7:00pm at the Hollywood Theatre, Oregon Cartoon Institute presents the Harry Smith Seance, an evening of films and speakers. Rani Singh, director of the Harry Smith Archives at the Getty Institute, will introduce two of Harry Smith’s short, hand painted Early Abstractions, and a rare full length screening of his 66 minute
cutout animated masterpiece, Heaven And Earth Magic. Musical accompaniment will be provided by Matt Carlson and Jordan Dykstra. Sound design by Andrew Ritchey. All films are on 16mm. Dennis Nyback will provide customized live projection. This is an extremely rare opportunity to see Heaven And Earth Magic projected according to Harry’s original intent. Dennis will be using multiple projectors to create a layered image on the screen. On Sunday May 19 from 11:00am to 4:00pm at The Cleaners, Oregon Cartoon Institute presents the Harry Smith Free For All: a series of free, short, accessible, interactive presentations about the life and work of Harry Smith. Leo Daedalus of The Late Now will host. The day includes a string figures workshop, an experimental documentary, an Indoor Air Show of paper airplanes built by the audience, and a performance by Sacred Harp Singers. Speakers include Kaveh Askari, Doug Stewart, Anne Richardson, Dennis Nyback, Joe McMurrian, Andrew Ritchey, Jessica Beer and Leo Daedalus.
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Javier Baltazar, Chef/Owner javierb@mundocateringco.com 971-302-5041 http://mundocateringco.com Catering company
Kristi M Bogart
kristimariebogart@gmail.com 971-212-4114 Actor represented by Red Thread Entertainment
Devon Devereaux Illustration
Devon Devereaux devondevereaux@gmail.com 503-314-8073 http://www.devondevereaux.com Storyboards, pre-production, illustration, post production, motion graphics
Christine Gherardi
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Shan Gao Osburn
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Ron Pestes ronpestes@gmail.com 503-701-9097 http://ronpesteshdvideo.com HD videographer & editor
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Angel Station Pictures
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Jen Wilson
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Walking the Camino Returns to Ashland by Popular Demand Oregon-made film to open at the Varsity Theater on Friday, May 3 for a week of benefit screenings Ashland is getting a second chance to see the Oregon-made award-winning documentary, Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago, which played to sellout audiences at this year’s Ashland Film Festival. The Varsity Theater will be hosting a week of benefit screenings for the nonprofit production, beginning Friday, May 3, 2013. Daily showings are at 4pm and 6:30pm. Tickets can be purchased in advance through the theater website. Portland-based producer and director Lydia B. Smith will be present for a Q&A following all four screenings on Saturday and Sunday, May 4 & 5. For more information about the film, visit our website or call 503-206-4968. Called “brilliant” by Martin Sheen, star of The Way, Walking the Camino received the coveted Audience Favorite Award from the American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs. The film will
make its European premiere at the Festival Camino de Santiago Cine y TV on June 3, and is an official selection at the upcoming Newport Beach, Mt. Rainier and Mt. Hood Film Festivals. Walking the Camino explores the enduring mystique of Spain’s ancient Camino de Santiago trail as a spiritual mecca that inspires ordinary people to spend weeks, even months, walking 500 miles with only a backpack, a good pair of boots and the promise of experiencing the extraordinary. Although a number of films have been devoted to this global landmark, “Walking the Camino” uniquely captures actual stories from the trail itself as it follows in the footsteps of six “pilgrims”—each one on their own life-changing journey that ultimately concludes in a profound reawakening for both viewers and the adventurers alike. In 2004, Smith spent a year living in Ashland and working as a volunteer spiritual
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practitioner at the Center for Spiritual Living in Medford. Making her feature film directorial debut with Walking the Camino, the veteran filmmaker had also lived in Barcelona for six years, where she worked as a production coordinator for Spanish, Dutch, English and American television shows and commercials and in Los Angeles for over 12 years. Over the last two decades, she has traveled the world producing hard-hitting specials for CNN and PBS, as well as directed her own educational shorts on such inspiring subjects as the positive impact that children with disabilities can have on those around them. Most important, Smith had hiked the Camino prior to making the film. She knows firsthand the evolution of emotions and physical challenges that travelers encounter as the miles roll by. It was during her own Camino experience that someone suggested the idea of making a film, but Smith initially resisted. “I was scared I couldn’t do it justice. But then that’s what so many of us do: we stop ourselves short from pursuing our dreams because we think we can’t do something perfectly – when actually it’s the journey that counts above all.” The following spring, Smith was back with an award-winning international crew that included acclaimed Chilean cinematographer Pedro Valenzuela and accomplished producers Sally F. Bentley and Theresa Coleman (also the second unit director of “Walking the Camino”). Divided into two camera units, with an
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additional floating cameraman, the group spent six weeks conducting walk-and-talk and stationary interviews. In addition, each featured pilgrim recorded hours of their own video-diaries during moments of introspection on the trail or inside the albergues (special pilgrim hostels), giving an incredibly intimate insight into the minds of these adventurers. By the time principal photography was completed, Smith and her crew had shot more than 300 hours of footage. Far more grueling than the filming itself, though, has been the ongoing process of raising the funds necessary to complete the nonprofit production. Smith, Bentley and other members of her staff have now toiled for four years without compensation, and her film crew worked for only $100 a day. Even so, the need for funds continues as the film begins its own journey on the international film festival circuit, before debuting on PBS.
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The Northwest Film Center Presents Project Viewfinder Free Premiere Screening on May 1, 6pm at Whitsell Auditorium The Northwest Film Center proudly presents the premiere screening of Project Viewfinder, the culminating work of a four-month mentorship program for homeless young adults. The film will be screened on Wednesday, May 1 at 6pm in the Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium inside the Portland Art Museum (1219 SW Park Ave). Admission is free to the public.
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“I appreciate that Project Viewfinder could see us, the homeless, and say, ‘We see value in these youth, right here in our own city.’” says participant Antwoine Thomas. “I want the world to hear the message I have to relay and hopefully consider it.” The evening will consist of short films, made by the participants, about the myths and realities of homelessness along with interviews and footage of their experiences and struggles. The event will begin with a 5pm reception celebrating the accomplishments of the filmmakers. The films will be followed by a Q&A with the participants. This project was inspired by the uplifting story of Hazel Malone, a School of Film student who, mentored by our faculty, turned her life around from one of homelessness to one of hope, joy and creativity. Her story was first told last year in a short film made for the Film Center’s 40th Anniversary Gala.
Click to watch video Project Viewfinder began in January 2013 after the Film Center sought out young adults transitioning from homelessness to self-sufficiency that were interested in learning media production techniques. Working three days per week and led by School of Film lead faculty member Bushra Azzouz and supporting filmmakers, the project empowers participants to tell their stories using the medium of film. Project Viewfinder is endeavoring to engage the Film Center’s School of Film with underserved members of our community, seeking to enact change on a direct level.
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Complicity Screens at Seattle True Independent Film Festival Sunday, May 5 at Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle, WA A feature film with original music by OMPA member Greg Ives will screen at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival on May 5th after having its world premiere at the Boston International Film Festival on Saturday, April 13th and also screening at The New Filmmakers New York on April 17th. The filmmakers are currently in contract negotiations for North American Distribution of Complicity with Inception Media Group, with a release most likely slated for the fourth quarter of 2013. Complicity is a window into a group of partying teenagers suddenly faced with a life or death situation after an alleged rape. “It’s the darker side of the youth
culture we live in,” Harding says, knowing pop culture better than most as director of the Emmy Winning MTV reality series, The Osbournes and current E! Reality Show, Chasing The Saturdays. With Complicity , Harding takes a serious turn into the reality of the sexualization of youth, violence and “pack” mentality. “I had no idea that Complicity would be such a topical ‘hot button’ two years after I wrote it,” Harding says. Referring to the mass demonstrations in India against gang rape and the recent controversial guilty verdict of two football players in Steubenville, Ohio for rape, while party goers used their cell phones to record the assault, but not to call for help.
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Atomic Wins Awards, Including “Best Branded Short-Form” Brand DRTV advertising agency Atomic Direct received news that the agency has won three awards for Kobalt Tools fall 2012 campaign and Teho Tools spring 2012 campaign.
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Jordan Whitney Inc. has awarded their annual “Best Branded Short-Form Presentation” Greensheet Award to Atomic Direct for its Kobalt Double-Drive Ratchet campaign.
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Atomic also won the “Best Hardware Infomercial” Greensheet Award for its work on the Teho Garden Maintenance Kit.
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Along with the Greensheet Awards, Atomic has won a Telly for another short-form project for the Kobalt brand – their fall 2012 campaign for Kobalt’s Magnum Grip, self-adjusting pliers. “At Atomic, it’s all about delivering results for our clients. So it’s an honor when organizations like Jordan Whitney and the Telly’s choose to recognize what we’ve done,” states Doug Garnett, President of Atomic Direct. For Garnett, “The Brand Award may be the most exciting. In the right situation, product-based advertising like the Kobalt campaigns will build brand far faster than standard ‘brand advertising.’”
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Bent Image Lab Creates Kroll Show’s Killer Robot The skit “Demo Monster,” featuring a highly opinionated animated man/robot, debuted during Comedy Central’s new series Kroll Show. The animated portion of the live action skit was produced at Bent Image Lab and directed by Bent’s Rob Shaw. Inspired by RoboCop. “Demo Monster” features a stop motion robot programmed with male stereotypes, asked to give his opinion on TV shows. “I wanted it to be a true homage to RoboCop,” says Shaw. “RoboCop is super influential from a stop motion stand point because Ed 209 [from the film] was created in stop motion.” Shaw was recruited to direct the animated segment of “Demo Monster” after he worked with Kroll Show Director Jonathan Krisel on a previous project at Bent. Shaw designed the robot with input from Nick Kroll (the show’s star) and Krisel. The stop motion “monster”
features 5 arms, 3 legs and a machine gun. Each hand holds something an 18 – 34 year old male would want, including a pizza (that turns into a throwing star), a football, a cell phone, and a human hand to type on his phone or work his video game console. His three legs consist of a basketball clothed leg, a robotic leg and a skate board leg. A spring attaches a can of beer to his tiny brain that is enclosed in a plastic cylinder. A computer is glued to his chest next to some kind of gauge. To give the monster emotion Shaw developed 2D animation facial expressions that were composited onto the robot’s facial screen. Bent also produced the effects of gun fire and blood bursts. “Demo Monster” aired on February 6, 2013 during the “Too Much Tuna” episode of Comedy Central’s Kroll Show. Kroll Show airs on Wednesday nights on Comedy Central at 10:30/9:30pm Central.
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Arrowhead’s Message for the Masses, Produced & Directed by Bent Arrowhead® Brand 100% Mountain Spring Water’s latest video, “Recycling Is A Beautiful Thing”, unfolds in beautiful stop motion animation while advocating the importance of recycling and features Arrowhead’s new 500ml ReBorn™ bottle. Campaign idea and concept by ad agency Threshold Interactive, produced by Bent Image Lab and directed by Bent’s Solomon Burbridge. “The awareness aspect in this spot is really important,” says Burbridge. “If everyone were more aware about the things that we were accidentally throwing away, we would be able to use a lot more recycled material in the bottles that are made.” An assembly of images such as floating brightly colored bottles, anamorphic art sculptures, and a handcrafted forest landscape composes the 1 minute 14 second spot and educates the audience on how much waste we actually accumulate. Through animated copy lines the spot relays the fact that over 2.8 billion plastic
bottles ended up in California landfills last year. To promote recycling, Arrowhead launched its new 500ml “ReBorn” bottle made with 50% recycled plastic and released this video. Arrowhead and its corporate parent Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) have made it part of their company’s responsibility to promote environmental consciousness. To keep in line with the recycling theme the Bent team incorporated as many reusable elements into the production as possible. One art piece comprised multiple hanging bottles suspended in a circular pattern which, when horizontally spotlighted, reflected an image of the earth. “The earth piece comes from a type of art that’s been around for a long time,” says Burbridge. “It’s called anamorphic art which is usually a sculpture or sometimes a painting that looks one way from one direction and completely different from another.” Arrowhead’s “Recycling Is A Beautiful Thing” video was released online on February 13, 2013.
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Portland Filmmakers Turn Heads with Smoochknob Music Video After half a year making music videos, and considerably longer involved in other video projects, the filmmakers of Sky’s Edge Films have caught more eyes than ever with their video for “She’s So Ghetto,” the new single from Portland’s longtime punk-pop darlings, Smoochknob. The video follows a robot straight out of a 1950s B-movie as it escapes from a laboratory and wreaks havoc around town, all the while pursued by its tweedy, bespectacled inventor. To see the video, click the image below. While previous videos Sky’s Edge Films has created for acts like Sparkle Nation and Karl Whinnery have received their share of attention, none have hit quite like “Ghetto,” which has surged past 300,000 views on YouTube since its live premiere at the Analog Café & DRD Records Little Theater late last month - and continues to climb. “The video was fun to write, shoot and edit,” says director Freddy Heath, who also co-writes, edits and produces the team’s output. “From writing to wrapping principal photography, it was only four days, which
. . . is an incredibly short amount of time in which to produce a music video like this one.” Cinematographer Ben Bach, who, like Heath, hails from the Northeast, shares his enthusiasm for attacking time crunches and technical challenges head-on. “Tons of setups for the time allotted,” Bach observes, “but with an awesome cast and crew we rocked it.” Sky’s Edge Films, which also includes co-writer and assistant director John Hart, production designer / line producer Samantha DeMars, and assistant director of photography Travis Stanton, currently has two videos in post-production: one for Twenty Shades of Red’s local radio favorite “The Big Climb” and another for Smoochknob labelmate Ian Scott. As for future projects, the team looks forward to new experiences. “As a team [we] have broad musical tastes and it’s wonderful to be able to work with so many different artists, in different genres,” says Heath. “They all have unique ideas, needs and wants and it keeps us loose and having fun. We make sure we never get stuck in any kind of rut.”
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NW Animation Fest Schedule Announced for 2013
May 17-19 in Portland / May 31 - June 2 in Eugene Hilarious, dramatic, strange and inspiring. NW Animation Fest is a variety show that celebrates the best new work from independent animators around the globe. The 2013 event includes 151 films from 30 countries. Have you ever watched the Oscars and wondered where those nominees for Best Animated Short are coming from? This is the place to find out! Join us in Portland for the full NW Animation Fest experience, including afterparties and attending filmmakers. Two weeks after the festival’s Portland Premiere, our entire 3‑day program of 151 films repeats at the Bijou Art Cinemas in Eugene, OR. Details coming soon. Portland (Premiere) When: May 17-19, 2013 Where: Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR Showtimes Friday: 7-11pm Saturday: 1-5pm / 7-11pm Sunday: 1-5pm / 7-11pm Ticket Prices $10 - Afternoon $15 - Evening $55 - Festival Pass (Save $10!) Special Deals $5 - Youth (<18) Saturday afternoon only $50 - Festival Pass, advance purchase Eugene When: May 31-June 2, 2013 Where: Bijou Art Cinemas, Eugene, OR Additional details TBA
“Butterflies” by Isabel Peppard & Warwick Burton
“Feral” by Daniel Sousa
“Paperman” by John Kahrs & Kristina Reed
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May MOPAN Meeting Thursday, May 9th at Hole in the Wall BBQ, Springfield Filmmaker Theresa Demarest (from Portland) will be the presenter at the May MOPAN meeting. Demarest produced the documentary Keiko: The Untold Story,
which won the award for Best Documentary at the 2011 Eugene Independent Film Festival. More information about the film is online.
$4000 Awarded to College Scholarship Recipients from the Oregon Music Hall of Fame
Performance Celebration: Tuesday, May 14, 2013. 5:30-7:30 pm at Jimmy Mak’s The Oregon Music Hall of Fame board of directors is pleased to announce that Aaron Reihs, Evan Carlson, Miya SaitoBeckman and Tatiana Hargreaves are the recipients of the annual OMHOF College Scholarships. The Scholarships will be formally presented to each after their individual performances at Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave, Portland, OR. The scholarship presentation is a free event. Following the presentation, the Mel Brown’s Septet performs as part of Jimmy Mak’s “Partners in Jazz” series at 8:00pm. Cover charge for that show is $5. Please call ahead to reserve a table for the quartet performance. (503)295-6542 Meet the Musically Motivated Students:
Evan Carlson I started playing trumpet in fifth grade. My most memorable musical experience so far was performing “America the Beautiful” as part of a 500 member ensemble during the Music in May festival at Pacific University where I will enroll in the fall.
Aaron Reihs I was drawn to playing the saxophone in 5th grade band class. I became dedicated to studying jazz at the end of 9th grade.I received the opportunity to play in festivals in New York City, Monterey, and Atlanta. I am honored to have received the OMHOF scholarship, as it represents my dedication and enthusiasm to being a student of this music.
Tatiana Hargreaves I have always been attracted to the sound of the fiddle. I am excited about receiving the OMHOF scholarship for it will help me attend college where I plan on studying ethnomusicology. I will be attending Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts in the fall.
Miya Saito-Beckman I have been playing the violin since the age of three and began fiddle at the age of 5. I love teaching my twelve violin/fiddle students, and am so excited to have been awarded the Oregon Music Hall of Fame College Scholarship! It will help me attend college this fall as a violin performance major.